The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-26
CHILDREN REARED BY WOLVES.
A Glance at Some OF the Remarkable
Stories of This Sort.

One of the most remarkable of wolf children
says writer in Chambers Journal, is boy
who in his Sd year was carried off by wolf
while his parents were at work in the fields, and
who was recovered six years afterward as he
was going down TO the river to drink with the
old wolf and her young ones. \ mole and a
scar on his left arm led to his identification. lie
became in some degree tanned, but he never
learned TO speak. He refused to wear clothes.
He walked on all fours and preferred raw meat
and carrion TO any other kind of food. Frogs
which the village children caught and threw 10
him he devoured with great avidity AT night
he would often run off into the woods, and on
such occasions his parents had great difflculty
in recovering him.
1t is curious how closely some Indian stories
of wolf children agree in their general
features, and even in some of their details. Inc
matner in which the capture OF these children
is effected is, to say the least, suspicious the
constant recurrence of the wolf going TO the
river 70 drink gives that part OF the story
somewhat mythical tinge.
glance at the kindred cases recorded by
European writer's reveals striking resemblance
to these Indian stories. In Wilhelm Dlhcn 5
HeSsian Chronicle, pmportlng to be truthful
narrative of the events which happened during
the authors lifetime, we are told that in the
year 1871 some hunters found boy among a
pack of wolves. Ditch does not say whether be
saw the child with his own eyes, but he de
ScribeS him walking on all tours, shrinking
at the approach of strangers, and crouchlng
under tables and benches and refusing all cooked
food.
A Hanoveran writer of the seventeenth cen
fury relates that in 1861 two children were dis
covered in the company of bears in the forest
near the Polish town of GrodnO. One of them
escaped, together with the bears, but the other,
who was a boy of about or years of age, was
taken to Warsaw, and there presented to the
King, John CaSimir. The King for some time
kept him about bis court, had him christened,
and then turned him over to Peter Opaiinski.
one of his chamberlains, who attempted to
utilize him a scullion in the royal kitchen. In
long Latin poem, written by some scholar at
tached to the Polish court. a complete history
of the wretched lad is given from his first arri-
val at Warsaw till his final escape into the
woods. Like all his companions in mis-
fortune he is represented as moving
about on all fours in heavy numbering way.
He would eat anything, but was particularly
partial to raw meat, ripe fruit, honey and sugar
1t was also remarked that when he walked
erect. as he sometimes would do his general
resemblance TO a bear became more striking
than ever.
Among other more or less genuine cases of
this kind we may mention the wild boy, y who
beloved like an OK. and who some time ago
created a great sensation at Bamberg in Ger
many; the girl who was captured at Chalons in
1881. and of whom it was said that she had been
living in the river Marine like a fish, and the
wretched creature in whom Lord MOnboddo
thought he had discovered a specimen of print
tive man.